The president recently went to Colombia. He signed a free-trade agreement that will likely work very much like all free-trade agreements work — namely, jobs will flow to a country where people pay five cents a week and murder labor leaders while we get cheaply made crap in return that we can increasingly not afford because people got no jobs, people got no money. He talked about possibly legalizing dope. He visited with some members of an ethnic minority whose history is a staggering catalogue of racism and abuse and he lifted their spirits. This, I think you'll agree, was a rich, full trip.

And what is your major media takeaway?

Hookers.

And, if it weren't for the hookers, the whole trip would have been the third item on your nightly newscasts.

It is very screwed we are.

(And I'm not minimizing the need for the Secret Service to be on the ball. I'm old enough to remember what happened when the protection detail went out and got shitfaced on the evening of November 21, 1963. Glenn Beck, apparently, is not.)